I was first introduced to Moon Over Buffalo in my senior year of high school when the Beacon High School Drama Council (i.e. Mrs DeLeo) decided to do it for the fall straight show. I was cast as the lead, George Hay, who was supposed to be an actor in his 50's. I was a young, short, pre-pubecent-looking seventeen at the time. My craft was not ( Read more... )

While searching for information on rights and royalties for "Our Lady of 121st Street" on the Dramatists Play Service Inc. website (www.dramatists.com), I saw the cover for a play by Paula Vogel-a name I'd heard in passing around the Theater Department. It was called "Hot 'N' Throbbing" and I admit it: being a guy, my interest was piqued. ( Read more... )

Writer for The New York Times, Peter Marks, says Wit is "[A] brutally human and beautifully layered new play...You will feel both enlightened and, in a strange way, enormously comforted." Nancy Franklin of The New Yorker says "Far and away the most celebrated new play of 1998...You feel that its lessons and pleasures amount to a second chance, to ( Read more... )

I've decided to take a crack at directing this upcoming spring semester, which means the search for a play. My criteria are fairly straight forward: first of all, it has to make me burn. Then, it has to be something with some renown, preferably comedy but with substance, not necessarily dark but with a strong message, simple setting (for DC ( Read more... )

Back a few years ago, I was doing a paper for Shakespeare (Eng 245 here at SUNY Bing). My topic was Shakespeare and the Actor: how an actor reads and then performs Shakespeare. To do this paper, I scoured (a little too incompletely, I now concede) sources on Shakespeare and the actor, but no source was as helpful as the real thing: a living, ( Read more... )

Today was auditions at Binghamton University for “Comedy of Asses” and “Pippin” and I feel pretty good about it ( Read more... )

So, where to begin something like this ( Read more... )